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Welcome to angry the problem. Welcome to Angry Planet. Hello and I'm Matthew Galt.

Space.

Is it still the final frontier?

And does anyone really care about it anymore?

Aside from a few billionaires and maybe a millionaire or two.

Does NASA have any mojo left?

And are any of us alive now going to see a landing on Mars? These are all questions dear to my heart.

So we have Christian Davenport who covers space for the Washington Post and is the author of the Space Barons and he's on the show today.

Thank you for joining us.

Sure, thanks for having me.

All right, just a very basic question, but does America know why it's in space anymore?

That's a good question.

I don't know that the average citizen taxpayer voter really pays that much attention, especially with everything that's going on.

I mean as we're recording this you're looking at the Hurricane Ida, we've got the withdrawal from Afghanistan,

we've got things that are just happening in people's lives like back to school and just getting by frankly.

So I think space is outside of most people's consciousness, frankly, where it has been for a long time, I mean,

particularly since the end of the Apollo era, but I think it's starting to creep back in I mean getting back more into mainstream media and getting more attention because of the rise of these billionaire entrepreneurs and people like Elon Musk and Jeff

Bezos and Richard Branson and what they're doing and I think people are

starting to pay attention at least a little bit but it's in my little community of the space tribe.

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